This one’s on Juan Uribe and the offense. In the sixth inning, after a leadoff single, Uribe dropped a foul ball; the reprived Mookie Betts later singled and scored. Three men scored in the inning, and it went from a 1-0 game to a 4-0 game.

The inning exemplifies Mac’s belief in the stupidity of the “earned” run; Miller gave up four singles and a double and three runs in the inning, and all were unearned because Miller induced a double play that would have ended the inning if Uribe had caught the foul pop-up.

But that was pretty much it, really. The Braves scratched out two runs on a horrible throw above the first baseman’s head from pitcher Clay Buchholz — who, as many people have pointed out, looks like an uglier Theon Greyjoy. David Aardsma, because he is a member of the Braves bullpen, obligingly gave one of those runs back in the next half-inning, but the Braves bats only managed five singles, a double, and two walks, and it really didn’t matter. Unless Miller twirled another shutout, tonight wasn’t going to be our night.

Tonight we get to see top prospect Matt Wisler go against the Mets’ Jacob deGrom. DeGrom is awfully tough. But it’ll be fun to see what Wisler has.

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JC’d (and a lot of work, so I’m repeating, with one line altered to improve scansion)

To blazon:

Let me not to the analysis of baseball
Accept your foolishness. Fans are not fans
Who bail before the orange leaves of fall
Or accept losses sitting on their hands
Oh no! we suffer every bad blown save
Each awkward hack by Gomes Godforesaken
We need a star to bring us to the park
Whose WAR’s immense and tools unmistaken
Fredi’s not a fool though some decisions
Cause many boos (and booze to be consumed)
It’s baseball; not issues of nuke fissions
But nonetheless we all know that we’re DOOOOOMED

If Simba errs I’ll eat my throwback cap
Now a West Coast game… time to take my nap.

I wrote my own parody of “Shall I compare thee…” last year for the summer league I run. Since it was ’14, naturally the theme was sonnets and the jersey had Shakespeare catching a frisbee. I find it interesting we both left the “eye of heaven” line intact.

Smitty: solid four, maybe a three innings-eater is what I read as the consensus. I think the predictions of ace are dreamcasts. I hope that at least the lowest projections come true. I agree with your opinion of Folty.

Bledsoe, JonathanF: I love your posts. I’m glad the Nats are having to play the games on the field rather than being allowed to accept their coronation. They have played much worse than their clippings.

I hate that despite how well most of our players have performed, we’re still two games behind the rodent illegitimates.

My Braves’ bullpen is nothing like Craig Kimbrel
Many homers go less far than pop-ups they induce
If Veal be a setup man, why then a vuvuzela is a timbrel
If Cunniff be reliable, then in reliable relievers they are profuse.
I have seen Wohlers, Ligtenberg, Berenguer
But no such closers see I in our pen
Many position players’s arms are more fair
Than the kerosene-pourers on the team post-Wren.
I love to watch them play, yet well I know
That swings-and-misses hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a Braves team go
So reliably to drive late leads into the ground.

And yet, by heaven, they are my team
Though ev’ry inning eight may crush another dream.

I think the lack of excitement is because Wisler has a 4.29 ERA at AAA. If he was blowing through AAA, I think it’d be a little different. I’m excited, but I’m also a little concerned that he’s not ready.

“If Wisler is indeed here to stay following Friday’s promotion, he’ll accrue 109 days of Major League service time in 2015, which should leave him comfortably shy of Super Two status as he works through the arbitration process. He’d be controllable through the 2021 season in the event that he remained at the big league level from this point forth.”

They also summarize what I said here:

“Wisler has pitched reasonably well at Triple-A this season, although his numbers don’t line up with the type of production one might expect from such a highly touted prospect. In 65 innings thus far, he’s worked to a 4.29 ERA with 6.8 K/9 and 1.8 BB/9. He’s been plagued by a 64 percent strand rate, which helps to explain why FIP credits Wisler with a much more favorable 3.33 mark.”

I have no clue why Eveland has a spot on this roster. In a rebuilding year with options on the farm that are equally worse but with more potential, it makes no sense to let Eveland lose games. And why Fredi isn’t burying him in the back of the bullpen is ridiculous.

Jenkins’ success is diminished by his peripherals. He’s only struck out 47 in 76 innings to go with 33 walks. His FIP is 4.02 against his 2.84 ERA. I’d rather him spend the whole year at AA bc he has a lot of room to improve and we have a miniglut of MLB-ready 4th/5th starters with Wisler, Folty, and Perez.

Agreed. Wisler’s peripherals suggest he’s better than he’s been, and Jenkins suggest he’s not as good as he’s been. Has anyone done a study of what reverse peripherals results in for the next 2-3 seasons? Do some players just continue to maintain the reverses or does it correct itself?

I understand that certain types of pitchers can maintain splits, such as sinker-ballers or other styles that can consistently generate weak contact. I thought Jenkins was supposed to be more of a power pitcher, though, which doesn’t bode well for regression

Everyone is reporting that Wisler is the first pitcher since Smoltz to go 8 and win in their debut. Chuck James did it in ’06. I guess it’s not a big deal but it’s annoying to me that this keeps getting falsely reported.

Went to Yankee Stadium tonight & got there in time to see A-Rod’s 3,000th. He hit an oppo-HR on the very first pitch he saw.

But the reaction was a little muted, mostly from the team. For the most part, the fans were into it & there was a good walk-up crowd (took longer than usual to get into he park). But the only acknowledgement was a brief, “Congratulations, Alex, on 3,000” on the big board. Kinda weird.

But I did enjoy listening to Braves/Mets on the radio. Great to break their hearts in such cruel fashion, nice to see someone else’s bullpen immediately give up a game-winning hit and, of course, a great start from the kid.

did we know that when Jason built the Argo, which had 50 oars, he recruited 50 remarkable people one of whom was Hercules, the strongest man in the world, ever, and another, Atalanta, the only woman on board.

Quite possibly, in their search for the Golden Fleece, they doubled up, late.

They eventually stole it of course but not before several unsuccessful attempts.

If you let Teheran eat innings the first few months and stick with the plan to provide an extra day of rest whenever possible, you're less likely to end up in a position where you may need to limit the younger arms down the stretch